Cold-air atmospheric pressure plasma against clostridium difficile spores: A potential alternative for the decontamination of hospital inanimate surfaces

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 742-744

  Claro, Tânia ^a   Cahill, Orla J ^b   O'Connor, Niall ^b   Daniels, Stephen ^b   Humphreys, Hilary ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACTERIAL SPORE; COLD AIR; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PLASMA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; COLD; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA GAS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

PLASMA GAS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLD TEMPERATURE; CROSS INFECTION; DECONTAMINATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PLASMA GASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84990310408     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.39     Document Type: Article

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